Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-26
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per annum. and in the world al $20, 900 600.
WHEN the steamer Lepanto was $50 miles
from Boston, coming West, perfectly white
owl-a beautiful specimen, with wings four
feet and half from tip to tip-alighted upon
the deck and was captured. The bird weighs
eight pounds.
SHERIFF ROWAN. of Philadelphia, who is in
an insane asylum, is a lunatc OF peculiar
| kind. He remembers nothing and recognizes
no one except his wife. but when she is with
| MIN ne Is as rational as ever. The trouble Is
| tnAt ne then insists on going to his Office, and
the moment he leaves her side he becomes q
| maniac again.
THAT German who has invented a simple
method Of deadening the sound Of the piano
deserves monument of solid gold. The con-
| trlVance consists merely of the application of
me nannel TO the frame between the strings
ana hammers of an upright piano. The sound
can be graduated at will without in uring the
| quality OF the tone.
FARMERS in the southwestern part OF Con-
nectlcut are being duped by agents who are
| going about obtaining their signatures TO a
pledge not to destroy song birds, which in due
Ilme proves to be signature to promissory
| hote. winch by some means gets to a farmer
| through bank and which the farmer had
ra'ner pay than fight the rascals.
DECIDEDLY big mining scheme is about to
be launched in California. 1t 10 no less than
twelve mile tunnel for draining the entire
group of mines in Nevada City and Grand
! valley The water power OF the Yuba river
Will be used to drive the drills and prope tho
! cars. The tunnel, where 1t enters the mines,
| VIII De zoo ieet below the surface.
AMEcHANICAL EXPERT given to curious in
vestigations estimates that the footing of a
locomotive on the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad in an ordinary DAYS
| run, Involves waste of steam requiring the
consumption of $50 pounds of coal to renew.
| He estimates the whIstlinG expenses of that
particular railway at $40 900 per year.
TRAVELLING vENPRILooUIsT attended
church one Sunday morning recently in
Western Missouri. The sermon was a long
one and he fell fast asleep. While in this IN
| conscious condition he performed one OF his
| ordinary professional trIcks-that of initial
ing the sound of dog fight on the outside In
| less IMAM ten seconds the church was EN- PITY.
PARIS has discovered a new poet, Jehan
Sarrazin by name, who is not peasant like
Rollins, has not been pulled by Albert Wolf,
does not know Sarah Bernhard, is not Par
| lrlhn or man of the world, put Is pedder
OF olives in concert hall. He sells his books
! with his olives, Is becoming wealthy, has real
talent IN MN and Will be famous, SO they say.
THERE lies In a New York hospital an aged
and almost friendless invalid whose name
was once famous in the world of letters.
|
| leading publisher Of PHILADELPHIA For Gra-
| hams Magazine Edgar Allan Poe wrote much
of his best work. Graham was at one time
! part owner of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can. He was, thirty or forty years. ago,
power In the literaryawOrld, but would now
| be In the poorhOuse were 1t not for the kind
ness Of a philanthropic PhiIadelphian.
| EVERY ONE knows that the sea has larger
animals than can be found on land; but, with
the enormous sequoias of California in mind,
many may be surprised to learn of vegetable
| growths in the ocean vastly exceeding in
| length, though not in bulk, these giants of the
| forest. Recently the ship Clever. commanded
| by Capt. John stone, arrived ct Montevideo
| with portion of a seaweed wnieh had been
| picked up In the Atlantic near the equator.
| The sailors perceived an object floating on the
surface some distance from the ship. and.
| manning boat, they rowed to ii. and ascer-
tanned that 1t was an alga OF enormous size.
length upward of 1900 feet.
THE amusing contempt displayed by
Americans and Englishmen for foreigners
recalls a story which was told few years
ago when MIR. Gladstone and the Poet
Laureate were cruising about under the care
OF SIR Donald Currie. At Copenhagen a
party of royal and grand ducai personages
who. at the time, were visiting the Court of
| Denmark. boarded the Pembroke Castle A
Danish aide, in descending to the saloon.
| tripped on the top stair and plunged head
| long to the bottom with a blood-curdIIBg
! howl. Hearing the disturbance the CAPTAIN
| dispatched petty officer 10 see what was the
matter. in few moments the latter re-
turned. "One of 'em fallen down the after
| hatchway, sir" Zone Of whomP "One o.
| them kings"
IN Covington. KY, few days ago a little
boy. the son of Mrs. n. Dean, while playing
n the yard tell into the cellar, which had
about three feet of water in it, and when
| taken out was pronounced dead by the at
| tending physician. A gentleman. attracted
! by the cries of the mother, stepped into the
| house and suggested that some one should
| place his mouth to the boys and draw in a
| good breath The suggestion was derided
| but the boys grandmother fancying that il
might DO ONE good. tried it, repeating the
| operation again and again, At last those
present were gratiied 10 notice that there
We're signs of the child returning to life.
Thus encouraged, the lady renewed her eff
forts, aud in short time the child was re-
stored to life, and was kicking and Yelling
vigorously,
THE following story. the truth of which Is
vouched for. is related of the Right Reverend
Father In God. the Lord Bishop of Man
chester" who sits as one of the spiritual peers
| in the House Of Lords. 1t appears that the
portly preate, who for some time acted as
Bishop OF Melbourne in Australia, deyeloped
W ME IN the c0lonv strong sporting uroclivi
ties which still cling to him, He keens a
most ferocious bull terrier IN his palace at
Manchester, and when he wants to unbend
his mind and also to unbend his dog he leads
The uRly-hea led beast iuto the back ward and
introduces him to another animal OF the same
species. Then the two animals Jaw each
other ana tear pieces out Of each others ribs
The Bishop Is descr ped as dancing around
meanW lille and cheering on his own nun n
the other dog gets the best of It, however. the
Bishop is said to take one long stride with his
Episcopal legs, and, taking him by the tail TO
drop him over the garden wall. In order to
fully appreciate the picture it must be added
That the Bishop ls very stout
AN Irish gentleman staying at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel said the other day: "Your
newspapers here are making much ado about
transferring rabbits eyes to mems heads.
Why, that is a tame operation compared with
what was done by friend of mine in the
county Limerick last year. This eminent
Oculist-whose name might rs well be MORT
arty as ANYTHING eise--had just taken out the
eyes OF woman TO clean and placed them
on saucer while engaged with the sockets
when. unfortunately, they were bounced
upon by favorite cat aud swallowed. But
the ocullst did not lose his presence of mind
lie seized the cat and before you could saw
Jack Robinson whipped out her eyes and
transferred them TO the vacant holes in the |
head of his patient with that skin for which
he is 80 justly celebrated. As for the woman.
she was enraptured when she found that
though in dark room, she could see as well
as with the light OF a thousand lamps The
fame OF the doctor spread far and wide after
TINS, nor was IL lesscned when month later
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